1. Describe the nature of your organisation’s mandate, objectives, and underpinning ideology.
2. Describe the ecosystem in which your organisation works? What are your priority areas? What needs do you serve?
3. To what extent does your organisation work on women’s human rights? What are some of the programmes?
4. Is your organisational position that the law is neutral? Please explain.
5. What are the elements that either hinder or enable legal protection for women’s human rights in your jurisdiction?
6. Is there an enabling environment to use strategic litigation as a tool for social change in your jurisdiction? What do you perceive to be barriers or opportunities?
7. Is strategic litigation included in your organisation’s Strategic Plan? If so, how is it included?
8. If your organisation has used strategic litigation, how has it used it as part of its work? How does this interact with other ways of working in your organisation?
9. How many years has your organisation been involved in strategic litigation?
10. Does your organisation have a Strategic Litigation Unit?
11. Does your organisation/Unit have a strategic litigation concept note or strategy document? If so, kindly attach this. If not, does you organisation plan to develop a concept note or document?
12. If your organisation has a unit/department solely focused on strategic litigation, what tools does this unit have? (E.g., client form, case sourcing tool, case development plan among others)
13. If your organisation does not have a dedicated unit how are cases managed? How does the decision to take a case take place? Who are cases allocated to?
14. Is your organisation willing to incorporate new tools and processes as part of its Strategic Litigation Unit? If so, are there any processes that are instrumental to your organisation’s Unit?
15. Does your organisation/unit have a dedicated budget for strategic litigation? what does this budget support? Is it sufficient?
16. Does your organisation/Unit have a media and communication strategy for cases you are involved in?
17. Does your organisation/Unit develop an advocacy plan for cases you are involved in?
18. How do you measure the impact of your strategic litigation work?
19. What is your organisation’s case selection criteria?
20. Does the organisation represent individual clients, act in its own name or both?
21. How does your organisation decide whether to represent individual clients or to act in its own name?
22. What is your organisation’s appreciation and use of amicus curiae briefs? How many times has your organisation been involved in a case as an amicus curiae?
23. Once you have decided to work on a case, what is the organisation’s procedure on how the case should be conducted for example: allocating a lawyer, identifying violations, framing of arguments, evidence, experts, decision on the use of outside counsel etc…
24. To what extent do you brief external counsel? What is the extent of the in-house lawyers’ engagement in litigation (consulting with clients, development of legal arguments, drafting of pleadings, conducting research)?
25. Do you receive external advice on strategic litigation? If yes, who gives external advice?
26. What kind of partnership (Core or Associate) is your organisation interested in and why? Please refer to call for application.
27. If your organisation has a unit or department that solely focuses on strategic litigation: how many members of staff work in the unit/ department: what is the percentage of their allocated time do the litigators work specifically on strategic litigation?
28. Are there two or more women litigators in your organisation? Kindly attach their CVs
29. Is the leadership of your organisation willing to commit its resources to the management of this partnership? Who shall be assigned to manage this partnership?
30. How much time can the assigned manager dedicate to the management of this partnership monthly? (Can answer in hours or days).
31. Does your organisation have a performance management system? If so, please describe it?
32. If there is a Strategic Litigation Unit within the organisation, how does supervision take place?
33. If you seeking support to establish a Unit (Core Partnership) where in your organogram will the Unit sit? Who will the lawyer in the Unit report to?
34. If successful with your application: are you willing to work closely with the ISLA team to jointly manage the Network lawyer and incorporate elements of the FLN in the management of the Lawyer?
Lawyer’s Name
Email address
Phone number
1. Do you identify as a woman living with disability?
2. What is your undergraduate degree qualification?
3. What is your highest degree qualification?
4. Do you have plans for furthering your studies?
5. If you have completed a specialised qualification in human rights or constitutional law (e.g., LLM in Human Rights and Democratization OR dissertation on Women and Land), please set out the details.
6. Have you ever undergone a Values Clarification exercise? What areas were covered?
7. Does your current work give you the opportunity to practice law in your area of speciality? Describe what this entails?
Please Provide Litigation Experience Details
Please Provide Details Of The Case
Explain Your Answer
If yes, what did the strategic litigation involve?
What was your role in the litigation process?
What was the outcome of the process?
If yes, provide details.
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12. Can you share a Court decision on disability rights that has been impactful on you? Please explain what the case was about and why it was impactful?
13. Do you have a conceptual understanding of the international and regional legal framework on disability rights? If so, what does this entail.
14. Can you share a Court decision on women’s human rights that has been impactful on you? Please explain what the case was about and why it was impactful?
15. Do you have a conceptual understanding of women’s socio-economic rights? If so, what does this entail.
16. Do you have a conceptual understanding of Violence against women? If so, what does this entail.
17. Do you identify as a feminist? If so, can you share more about this, including your watershed moment? If not, do you have another ideological leaning and are you open to learning more about feminism?
18. Is the law neutral? Explain your answer.
19. What is the most recent text/judgement/book you have read outside of your primary work? Please share key lessons learned.
20. Which article or book has been most impactful in your development as a lawyer that is also a woman? Please share key lessons learned.
21. What is your approach to your own development? Have you pursued any training/learning through your own initiatives? How did this develop you as a lawyer?
Lawyer’s Name
Email address
Phone number
1. Do you identify as a woman living with disability?
2. What is your undergraduate degree qualification?
3. What is your highest degree qualification?
4. Do you have plans for furthering your studies?
5. If you have completed a specialised qualification in human rights or constitutional law (e.g., LLM in Human Rights and Democratization OR dissertation on Women and Land), please set out the details.
6. Have you ever undergone a Values Clarification exercise? What areas were covered?
7. Does your current work give you the opportunity to practice law in your area of speciality? Describe what this entails?
If yes, provide details of your experience.
If yes, provide details of the case.
Explain your answer.
If yes, what did the strategic litigation involve?
What was your role in the litigation process?
What was the outcome of the process?
If yes, provide details.
If yes, provide details.
If yes, provide details.
If yes, provide details.
If yes, provide details. (copy)
12. Can you share a Court decision on women’s human rights that has been impactful on you? Please explain what the case was about and why it was impactful?
13. Do you have a conceptual understanding of the international and regional legal framework on disability rights? If so, what does this entail.
14. Can you share a Court decision on women’s human rights that has been impactful on you? Please explain what the case was about and why it was impactful?
15. Do you have a conceptual understanding of women’s socio-economic rights? If so, what does this entail.
16. Do you have a conceptual understanding of Violence against women? If so, what does this entail.
17. Do you identify as a feminist? If so, can you share more about this, including your watershed moment? If not, do you have another ideological leaning and are you open to learning more about feminism?
18. Is the law neutral? Explain your answer.
19. What is the most recent text/judgement/book you have read outside of your primary work? Please share key lessons learned.
20. Which article or book has been most impactful in your development as a lawyer that is also a woman? Please share key lessons learned.
21. What is your approach to your own development? Have you pursued any training/learning through your own initiatives? How did this develop you as a lawyer?
